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Originally Posted by Chris
You do realise this is not what arrest and police detention is for? Stupid question, you obviously don’t.
It is not the polcie’s job to hand out eight-hour prison sentences without trial. The power of detention has specific uses and is meant to be proportionate.
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It might have been proportionate, we simply don't know either way. The police have been known to bend (or even blatantly break) the rules to suit themselves. If they did on this occasion, hopefully any investigation will bring this to light.
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Originally Posted by Pierre
You misunderstand. "You" may make an entirely innocent and seemingly inoffensive remark, but subjectively, by your standard, If find offensive, I can call the police have you arrested and detained for 8hrs.
After you've been arrested and held in a cell for 8hrs.....and that's no harm done is it?
and why should you withdraw a comment and apologise, if no offence or malice was intended?
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No, if it was clearly nothing offensive like 'Do you like apple pie', you would be given short thrift if you complained.
If someone inadvertently offended someone, for example by using a dated term for a black person, and they genuinely didn't mean to be offensive, they would be only too pleased to negate the offense caused by withdrawing and apologising for the remark. If they refuse to do so, this would call into question whether if was accidental and if it was deliberately said in order to cause upset. The incident would then be viewed in an entirely different light.